unlikelihood
noun/ʌnˈlaɪklihʊd/
/ʌnˈlaɪklihʊd/
[uncountable]- the fact of not being likely to happen or be true synonym improbability
- He stressed the unlikelihood of something like this ever happening again.
- The lawyer pointed to the extreme unlikelihood of her getting into a car with a complete stranger.
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